Under the deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, the duo will create original series for the streamer via their Animal Pictures production banner.

“Maya and Natasha are proven talents in front of and behind the camera, and we are so excited to tap into this powerful creative brain trust and be in business with these fiercely funny and phenomenally smart women,” said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios.

“I’ve had an incredible experience working with the team at Amazon Studios on Forever, where they have given us true creative freedom,” said Rudolph. “I’m excited to extend this relationship and to have the opportunity for Natasha and myself to continue to develop new shows for a global audience.”

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Spinal Tap, the loudest band in England, is reuniting for a 35th anniversary screening of their film This Is Spinal Tap at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and will also perform following the screening.

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer will turn it up to 11 again in a one-night-only concert in which they’ll perform as themselves in tribute to the fictional band Spinal Tap. So they won’t specifically be in character as Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls. But they’ll further be joined by This is Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner for a conversation to follow.

“Spinal Tap proves there is definitely a fine line between stupid and clever,” director, co-writer and star Reiner said in a statement Monday.

True Blood fans rejoice. You may be getting a fix of the vampire fantasy story in musical form.

Speaking at a 10th anniversary screening of the pilot episode at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles on Sunday, creator Alan Ball gave details of the rumored musical version coming from composer Nathan Barr, which Ball says he’s heard is "pretty good."

Bluthal soared to the top of the bill when he starred alongside Joe Lynch in the sitcom "Never Mind the Quality", "Feel the Width" (1967-71), the pair playing respectively the Jewish jacket-maker Manny Cohen and the Irish trouser-maker Patrick Kelly running a business in the East End.

As J.K. Rowling continues to expand the “Harry Potter” universe, the generation that grew up watching onscreen adventures of the Boy Who Lived have remained a faithful bunch.

That much was clear from the opening weekend of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the latest installment in the seemingly endless array of “Harry Potter” sequels, prequels, spinoffs and stage shows. The umpteenth return to the fantasy series launched with $62 million at the domestic box office, a sizable and potentially problematic drop from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Like the first Fantastic Beasts installment, the audience breakdown was much older than the movies centering around the bespectacled boy wizard.

The lower than expected start displays that beyond die-hard fans, the Wizarding World has struggled to entice a new wave of Potterheads.

Frankenstein isn’t the only Frankenstein. James Whale’s 1931 take on Mary Shelley’s iconic novel was beaten to the punch by the Edison Manufacturing, which in 1910 produced what a title card describes as a “liberal adaptation” of the story.

The Library of Congress purchased a collection of prints in 2014 that included a nitrate print of Frankenstein. Alois F. Dettlaff acquired it in the 1950s and brought it with him to film festivals and monster conventions for decades; a meeting with then-AMPAS president Robert Wise in 1986 failed to persuade him to let the Academy preserve and archive it.

Anti-abortion crusader Scott Lloyd has been removed from the top post at the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson confirms to Rolling Stone. Lloyd, who became infamous for blocking migrant teens in his custody from receiving abortions, is being transferred to Hhs’s Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives, where he will focus on outreach to community-based and faith-based partners.

Hhs Secretary Alex Azar came under mounting pressure to remove Lloyd from the position after internal emails and depositions made public as part of

When Taylor Swift announced her new record deal on Monday with Universal Music Group and Republic Records, she coupled the long-awaited deal with an unusual provision: As part of her joint contract with the label, Umg must promise to hand over to artists, on a non-recoupable basis, a portion of the windfall from its Spotify shares in the future.

Not just to Swift, but to all its artists.

The caveat is broad, if vague. All three “Big Three” record labels — Universal, Sony and Warner — took shares in Spotify a few years ago,

Stan Lee’s team at Pow! Entertainment has written an open letter in response to a blog post written by Bill Maher, calling Maher’s comments in the wake of Lee’s death, “frankly disgusting.”

“Our shock at your comments makes us want to say “‘Nuff said, Bill,” but instead we will rely on another of Stan’s lessons to remind you that you have a powerful platform, so please remember: ‘With great power there must also come — great responsibility,'” the open letter reads.

Over the weekend, “Real Time” host and comedian Maher wrote an op-ed dismissing comic books as kids stuff, saying that Americans decided to never grow up and move on from the comic books that Lee helped popularize.

For Chris Murphy, the newly re-elected junior senator from Connecticut, Yemen is a byword for the failures of American foreign policy in the Middle East. For the past three years, he has been a consistent and often lonely voice in the government for ending United States military support for Saudi Arabia’s war on its southern neighbor, which has turned the country into a hellish failed state while accomplishing nothing.

Yemen is a small, impoverished country torn by domestic tribal power struggles and the regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran,

CNNWhite House correspondent Jim Acosta’s press credentials have been fully restored by the White House, the network announced in a tweet on Monday. In response, CNN dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration.

“Today the @WhiteHouse fully restored @Acosta’s press pass. As a result, our lawsuit is no longer necessary. We look forward to continuing to cover the White House,” said CNN in a terse statement Monday.

A rep for the White House did not immediately respond to request for comment from TheWrap.

Today the @WhiteHouse fully restored @Acosta's press pass. As a result, our lawsuit is no longer necessary. We look forward to continuing to cover the White House.

Discovery is splitting up its Hgtv and Food Network leadership, naming Courtney White as president of Food Network on Monday.

White, formerly executive VP and general manager of Hgtv and Food Network, will relocate from Knoxville, Tennessee to New York to concentrate solely on the company’s food brands. Allison Page, who was president of Hgtv and Food Network, will continue to run of Hgtv. Page will continue to work with “Fixer Upper” couple Chip and Joanna Gaines as they launch their new TV venture with Discovery.

“Courtney has been instrumental to the growth of both Food Network and Hgtv, turning talented home experts and everyday chefs into treasured, household names,” said Kathleen Finch, Discovery’s chief lifestyle brands officer, to whom White will report. “With her strategic eye on Food Network and Allison’s on Hgtv, we’ll ensure these iconic brands continue to delight our passionate fans and

On Monday, Christopher Watts, the Colorado man arrested and charged in the murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters, received three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Watts announced two weeks ago he would plead guilty in an effort to avoid the death penalty for the murder of Shanann, Bella and Celeste Watts in August. The family of Shanann Watts consented to the plea deal, the Associate Press reports.

Although Christopher Watts still wasn’t forthcoming about the details of the murders after agreeing to the plea deal,

“Sunday Night Football” was up significantly the week of Oct. 29 compared to the prior week.

In the Live+7 ratings, NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” drew a 7.5 rating in adults 18-49 for the game that aired Nov. 4., even with it’s Live+Same Day performance. Still, it easily topped all other broadcast programming for the week and was up a whopping 66% compared to the 4.5 rating the game on Oct. 28 drew. The Nov. 4 also drew approximately 24 million viewers, while the Oct. 28 game drew 14.3 million.

NBC also scored on the scripted side, with “This Is Us” (2.1 rating to a 3.8) topping all other scripted offerings for the week,

Rock on: Axs TV has renewed “The Top Ten Revealed” for a Season 2. Hosted and executive produced by Katie Daryl, the music countdown show gets 11 episodes for its sophomore run.

“The Top Ten Revealed” features a rotating panel of rock superstars and music experts who discuss the top songs in a wide variety of entertaining categories. Each week has a different theme.

“We’ve been having a great time filming these new episodes for season two of ‘The Top Ten Revealed,'” Daryl told TheWrap. “This year promises to be even better than the last, packed with more episodes, more icons, more music, more insight, and even more of the hilarious — and sometimes outrageous — hijinks that made the first season so special.”

HBO’s satirical comedy “Silicon Valley” is known for its lampooning of the Northern California tech bubble and frequently drawing the ire of those in the industry. But the show can count one of the tech industry’s founding fathers as a fan.

“If you really want to understand how Silicon Valley works today, you should watch the HBO series ‘Silicon Valley,'” wrote Microsoft founder Bill Gates in a blog post on Monday. “The show is a parody, so it exaggerates things, but like all great parodies it captures a lot of truths.”

Gates said he helped consult with “Silicon Valley” writers for its most recent fifth season — the show has routinely sought input from industry players, including former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo — and argued that the show is pretty accurate, in both the industry’s triumphs and mistakes. “I have friends in Silicon Valley who refuse to watch

If a thing of beauty is a joy forever, as John Keats famously said, then the surpassing loveliness and bracing brilliance of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma will never pass into nothingness. Not as long as there are film lovers or a Netflix, the streaming service that stepped up to bring the movie (fully financed by Participant Media) to theaters for a limited run. (Its worldwide subscriber base, numbering over 137 million, will have the chance to see it starting Dec. 14th.) In other words, Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical memory piece about his 1970’s childhood in Mexico,

The Brit List, the annual survey of British film executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays (similar to the Black List in the U.S.), was unveiled Monday in London with “Benny in the Dark,” a supernatural thriller by Phillip Morgan, heading the list.

The film, which garnered nine recommendations, is a “character-driven 1950s-set allegory for the unspoken societal fears around male depression.” It will be produced by House Productions, the company headed by Tessa Ross, the former controller of film and drama at Channel 4, and Juliette Howell, the former head of television at Working Title.

Morgan, whose credits include 2017 short “Blackmoor,” has another features screenplay in development, “E for English,” with Blue Shadow Films.

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